A chain of extinct volcanoes stretches across the Pacific from Hawaii to Kamchatka, suddenly changing direction in the middle. The explanation for this lies in large-scale tectonic changes which took place around 50 million years ago.
In 2015, FAU is once again ranked among the top universities in research and teaching compared with other universities around the world. 13 subjects from the humanities, sciences, medicine and engineering are among the top 300 worldwide.
FAU joins universities across Europe in observing a minute's silence on Monday, April 27 at midday in remembrance of the 147 people killed and at least 79 wounded during the terrorist attack on Garissa University College in Kenya on April 2 and all those affected by attacks on universities and university values around the world.
The first 7 Tesla MRI system in Bavaria has been installed at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen. On 22 April, the centrepiece of the new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner – a 7 Tesla magnet developed by Siemens Healthcare – was lowered into the future diagnosis room next to the Department of Neurosurgery by crane.
